.TH HOSTAPD 8 "April  7, 2005" hostapd hostapd
.SH NAME
hostapd \- IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B hostapd
[\-hdBKtv] [\-P <PID file>] <configuration file(s)>
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B hostapd
daemon.
.PP
.B hostapd
is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers.
It implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
The current version supports Linux (Host AP, mac80211-based drivers) and FreeBSD (net80211).

.B hostapd
is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling authentication.
.B hostapd
supports separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend,
.BR hostapd_cli ,
is included with
.BR hostapd .
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
For a complete description, run
.BR hostapd
from the command line.
.TP
.B \-h
Show usage.
.TP
.B \-d
Show more debug messages.
.TP
.B \-dd
Show even more debug messages.
.TP
.B \-B
Run daemon in the background.
.TP
.B \-P <PID file>
Path to PID file.
.TP
.B \-K
Include key data in debug messages.
.TP
.B \-t
Include timestamps in some debug messages.
.TP
.B \-v
Show hostapd version.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR hostapd_cli (1).
.SH AUTHOR
hostapd was written by Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>. 
.PP
This manual page was written by Faidon Liambotis <faidon@cube.gr>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
